Officials testify about Consumer Protection. They looked at Internet Service providers, Tech Companies and Internet Users who repost thirdparty material. The committee will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Online content moderation has largely enabled the internet experience that we know today, whether its looking up restaurant reviews on yelp, catching up on snl on youtube or checking in on a friend or a loved one on social media, these are all experiences that weve come to know and rely on, and the platforms we go to to do these things have been enabled by usergenerated content as well as the ability of these companies to moderate that content. Section 23069 Communications Decency act has enabled that ecosystem to evolve, by giving Online Companies the ability to moderate content without equating them to the publisher or speaker of that content, weve enabled the creation of massive online communities of millions and billio
Barbara doran from b88 Capital Partners good to see you, barbara less than two weeks until the official u. S. China trade talks kick off and a new wrinkle as to what will actually happen when both parties meet. It is definitely a new wri wrinkle today. For me the bigger concern emerging is what happens to the consumer all of the consumer data this week was pretty terrific, except for Consumer Confidence numbers. Housing, et cetera, we continue to have strong wages, growth, that sort of thing but for the first time, were seeing Consumer Confidence down a little bit, consumers and surveys are saying, hey, trade issues have crept into their head and, you know, my real concern is the margins of companies, if they start to do layoffs, that hurts Consumer Confidence, and stops spending and that is the underpinning, which by all accounts, we all agree. By the way, the china has got markets spooked. Nasdaqs down 1. 6, the laggard of those indices. Bob is with us for the full first hour, which
Of snow. Vaping crisis. The alarming new numbers, more than 800 cases across the country. The huge surge in just one week. Eee warning. High schools across the country forced to reschedule Outdoor Activities. Friday night Football Games moved to daylight as cases of the deadly mosquitoborn virus rise from michigan massachusetts. Missing money mystery. The Delta Airlines baggage handler arrested accused of stealing nearly 300,000 right from the tarmac. But the question this morning, where is that cash . From the floor to super bowl liv, jlo now set to take center stage at the halftime show with superstar shakira. Whenever, wherever what theyre revealing now about the 2020 super bowl show. Good morning, america. Happy friday to everybody out there. What a show that will be, jlo and shakira in miami for super bowl liv. We were talking about it, shes like, oh, the hips dont lie. Im so ready. Every latina in the country is ready for that lineup. We are super excited about that. First we wan
Jobless claims, lowest since april. The president agreeing to a twoweek delay on the tariff pause. Plus, the ecb is launching a new bondbuying program. Could it impact fed Decision Making until the next week and as the democrats get set to debate tonight, Elizabeth Warren propose ago sweeping increase in Social Security benefits financed by taxes on wealth the president delaying the imposition of good will tariffs. All of this coming ahead of planned meetings between the u. S. And china in early october. Earlier on squawk, the treasury secretary described the state of trade between those two countries. Weve had a series of principal level conversations. We have a deputies meeting planned in the next two weeks where the chinese will be coming here and working on material the vice premier coming here at the beginning of october to meet with ambassador lighthouser and myself we look forward to making progress over the next few weeks. Set tariffs could go up, they could go down. Hes lookin
Direct pitch for the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. Heres one of the quotes. Theres a lot of talk about bidens son, quote, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. Whatever you can do with the attorney general that would be great. The attorney general hes referring to is attorney general barr. The president used the name of attorney general barr and Rudy Giuliani who he said would be looking into the matter. He said both men would reach out to the president of ukraine and ask him to get started on this. The president of ukraine said he was going to investigate the matter. They had a fairly extensive conversation about this. The president mentioned he wanted to enlist the attorney general. What has the attorney general said about the fact the president mentioned him in the phone call. A rather extraordinary set of events took place after the Inspector General got word of the whistleblower complaint. He referred it to